Hari Kunzru Quotes

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• In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in a…
• Critchley and Webster’s fierce, witty exploration of Hamlet makes most other writing about Shakespeare seem simpleminded.
• Several times in my life I've gone through long periods without sex or any other kind of physical contact. The hunger it produces is deep…
• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me…
• I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and…
• I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
• I'm fascinated by the emergence of a global class. They're highly mobile; they reject the idea of place.
• In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
• Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
• There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
• There's nothing New York likes more than a thing. Or a place. Or a place that's a thing. Or a thing that happens to be…
• When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get…
• As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier…
• Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it…
• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't…
• I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a…
• I like moral judgment to emerge from the reader. We are being sold a very simplistic morality by our leaders at a time when nuance…
• I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do…
• I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims…
• I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going…

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